[Ns-developers] Ns-3.1 Stable Release Posted

[craigdo@ee.washington.edu]

I am happy to report to you that the initial stable release of ns-3 is now
is immediately available.

>From the RELEASE_NOTES file in the distribution ...

Release 3.1 (2008/06/30)
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The first ns-3 stable release
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This release is immediately available from:
http://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-3.1.tar.bz2

We dedicate this initial ns-3 release to our late contributor and friend,
Federico Maguolo.

What is ns-3 ?
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ns-3 is a new discrete-event network simulator designed for supporting
network
research and education. ns-3 features a solid, well documented C++ core and
models for TCP/IP (IPv4), several link types including WiFi, and mobility
models.

ns-3 is an open source project released under the GNU GPLv2 license which
allows anyone to use ns-3 without having to pay any license fee or
royalties.
ns-3 is actively seeking new contributors to extend the range of supported
models and/or to maintain existing models.

Where to get more information about ns-3
----------------------------------------

All the ns-3 documentation, is accessible from the ns-3 website:
http://www.nsnam.org

Including, tutorials:
http://www.nsnam.org/tutorials.html

Supported platforms
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ns-3 is regularly tested on the following platforms:
  - linux x86 gcc 4.2, 4.1, and, 3.4.6.
  - linux x86_64 gcc 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 3.4.6
  - MacOS X ppc and x86
  - cygwin gcc 3.4.4 (debug only)

Known issues
------------

ns-3 is known to fail on the following platforms:
  - gcc 3.3 and earlier
  - optimized builds on gcc 3.4.4 and 3.4.5
  - optimized builds on linux x86 gcc 4.0.x

The IPv4 API defined in src/node/ipv4.h is expected to undergo major changes
in preparation of the merge of the IPv6 API and implementation.

Future releases
---------------

Our next release, which is expected to happen in 2 to 4 months from now,
will
feature the merging of some of our projects currently in development: python
scripting, IPv6, emulation, a statistics framework and synchronous posix
sockets.